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By insisting COVID-19 vaccines remain under the control of big pharmaceutical companies under their TRIPS-mandated 20-year monopoly patents, the WTO has effectively restricted access to these life-saving vaccines especially for countries who need them the most.

The Biden administration is facing renewed questions about its global coronavirus strategy, with international infections climbing and the new omicron variant poised to tear across the world.

Four tributes from across the world — from members of the government sector, NGOs, media and academia.

Moderna projects $18 billion in sales as a handful of countries block an international patent waiver for vaccines.

India contests that the draft proposal completely ignores developing country concerns, like ensuring food security, in the wake of a pandemic.

The developed countries must provide means of implementation to developing countries in terms of climate finance, technology transfer and capacity building.

Calling upon the Like Minded Developing Countries LMDC to work closely to protect the interests of developing countries Union Minister for Environment Forests and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav urged that climate finance cannot continue at the levels decided in 2009 and it should be at least 1 trillion to meet with the goals of addressing climate change

PM Narendra Modi held various bilateral meetings with several heads of the state on the sidelines of the G20. He also met German Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez and Italian PM Mario Draghi, Pope Francis, President of the European Council, Charles Michel, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

Climate finance cannot continue at the levels decided in 2009 and should be increased to $1 trillion to meet goals of addressing climate change, said Union Min.

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday called upon the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) to work closely to